Franz rosenzweig biography

Biography of Franz Rosenzweig

Franz Rosenzweig was a German-Jewish philosopher who is known for his contribution to 20th-century philosophy with the development of a systematic doctrine of dialogical "new thinking." Unlike the "old" classical thinking, Rosenzweig's new thinking is not concerned with abstract and eternal universal concepts, but rather with speech thinking in time.

Rosenzweig was born into a family that was not deeply rooted in traditional Judaism.

He was the only son of Georg Rosenzweig, a wealthy industrialist and member of the city council in Kassel.

Franz rosenzweig biography

As a result, Rosenzweig had little familiarity with Judaism in his youth. He completed high school in Kassel and began studying medicine in 1906 at the universities of Göttingen, Munich, and Freiburg. However, after a few semesters, he switched his focus to subjects that interested him more, such as history and phi